Sometimes, rapid development comes with a price. Environmental protection is indeed important, but for the sake of development speed, sometimes sacrifices have to be made.
The Great Tang Kingdom isn't strong enough yet to be able to simply relocate heavily polluting factories to other countries. Even smelting plants and chemical plants, which are major polluters, are still in non-stop construction to this day.
Tang Mo wasn't ignorant of the fact that cleaning up pollution afterward is more difficult and labor-intensive. But he simply had no way to ensure environmental protection measures while pushing for industrialization.
On one hand, he lacked the necessary technology, and on the other, he lacked sufficient talent.
In terms of technology, Tang Mo prioritized the development of urgently needed subfields. But as he was just one person, he had to make his own choices about which technologies to develop and which to temporarily give up.
